Mirioron

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by Mirioron 6y ago
> According to the National Sleep Foundation, about half of U.S. adult drivers admit to consistently getting behind the wheel while feeling drowsy. About 20% admit to falling asleep behind the wheel at some point in the past year – with
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by Mirioron 6y ago
The problem is that at least two of the things you mentioned would be heavily disputed in being "societal good". The UN and US military have both done some incredibly screwed up stuff.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
That's a good point.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Obviously some things will come and go when things become mainstream. That's natural. But reddit going mainstream is probably why it became the way it is now. Suddenly, reddit had a lot of influence, so people started paying more atten
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> I remember Reddit before it started to clean up its house. It was worse. And yet that was the time when reddit was considered more balanced and open. People gathered there to discuss ideas. The future of the platform looked great. Now
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Has it? When it comes to nation states, do you really think that it would make a meaningful difference whether they hire 10000 people to create propaganda vs having a single AI algorithm? Yes, it would be a win in terms of cost, but creatin
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Didn't the war on drugs grow out of prohibition though? It's kind of odd to think that a lot of common drugs were commercially available 150 years ago. One of the most popular soft drinks ever started from that even. We also got a
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by Mirioron 6y ago
You just gave a laundry list of things to do, including buying a device that's worth as much as a used iPod. And to make matters worse, this is something you have to constantly keep on top of any time you install new apps. Otherwise th
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Turning stuff off isn't easy when there are so many different sources for them. I want to have important notifications that I write down myself, but turning off all the other notifications has broken that for me. I get a 50-50 whether
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> In Europe, 10 countries have implemented programs, with return rates ranging between 82% in Estonia and 98% in Germany. https://plasticsmartcities.org/products/deposit-return-progr...
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> The natural progression of this is to create large plastic bootle/container deposits. Again this will never happen because it obviously stops the current externalization of costs in the plastic business. We already have that in a
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by Mirioron 6y ago
If energy use doesn't matter then neither does the whole recycling thing. If energy efficiency doesn't matter then we could simply build machines that comb through the environment to collect garbage, sort it, and make it reusable.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Wasn't the 3/5 compromise rather a way to curb the power of slave owners? The more slaves they had the more power the votes of the state had.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
These specifications don't mean anything for a lot of people. To me they sound like marketing buzzwords that companies use to try to sell me inferior products. I'd much rather have them say 2k than any of the "FHD" abbre
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by Mirioron 6y ago
They're subsidized by young people, because when the old people were young they were forced to subsidized old people back then. It's a deal society forced upon people, so you can't act as though old people today didn't e
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> It's important to consider _who_ we are talking about here. But then their noble sacrifice isn't as important for society anymore, is it? If we simply need more children, then it's not relevant whether they're bo
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by Mirioron 6y ago
It's not tax benefits that makes parents better off. Tax benefits are in addition to the general benefits children provide. Children are your caretakers in old age. People who have children tend to live longer.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Great, the EU has picked up its surveillance effort of citizens again.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Don't forget that parents tend to have a higher life expectancy than people without children: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5484032/
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Except children benefit their parents. Before social security, children were your social security. This mechanism hasn't disappeared. Childless people already pay more taxes that are used to subsidize other peoples' children, but
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> Those children the parents are taking care of now will be the ones who will provide for the one complaining now via taxes as well as services rendered to them. > when these complainers will be asking for benefits and services that
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> I'd happily trade places with one of my childless coworkers right about now. Yes, some things come with downsides. I'm sure a lot of people would also want to trade places with you during the happy times you have with your k
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Because the situation is (probably) a lot more nuanced than what you paint it as.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> It's generally understood that medication should be used as a backup after CBT or other forms of therapy and if you do need medication, it should be concurrent with that therapy You say that, but from my experience medication is
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Good that it has worked well so far, but I think it's a bit too early to tell. A lot of choices parents make for their kids echo in the 20s of the kid as well. After that it tends to be more about their choices as they've had enou
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by Mirioron 6y ago
I think it's more of an indication that even a place like HN is split on the issue of how much you should restrict your kids. From a societal perspective this seems good, because both strategies get employed.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
When you were young, did your parents successfully employ content blocking on your (computer) activities?
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Would the woman have been legally justified to defend herself and the children? Or was her only legal option to stand there and let the abuse happen?
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by Mirioron 6y ago
I don't see how you can fight this. You can try to ban the videos, but the technology is eventually going to get so good and spread so much that you will be able to do this on demand. No video uploaded to a website necessary.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
If they at all play fantasy games (video or otherwise) or read fantasy or historical novels then they've run across this word.

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